Lee told MSNBC in December: “He’s not criticized the mayor. Why? His father works for the mayor.” Chance’s father, Ken Bennett, was appointed Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s deputy chief of staff and director of the Mayor’s Office of Public Engagement last year.

Starring Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Hudson and John Cusack, Chi-Raq is a comedy musical that reimagines the ancient Greek play Lysistrata. In the original, the women of Greece withhold sex to stop a war; in Chiraq, the war has been replaced with Chicago gang warfare.